BEST TEST PREP VIDEO EVER! There needs to be more educators like these women!!!! This music video (based on Beyonce's "All the Single Ladies") was created by teachers at Harman School in the Oakwood City School District in Dayton, Ohio as a tool to help motivate students each morning during Ohio Achievement Test week. It was quite a hit!

Interactive Maps: As part of the Southern Education Desk’s continuing coverage of how changes to the federal No Child Left Behind law will affect schools around the South, we’re tracking how many schools are meeting the federal bar now and what some characteristics of those schools are. (Click through to http://www.southerneddesk.org/mapping-georgias-school-districts-by-demographics-and-academic-achievement/ to access an interactive map of Georgia.

53 apply to be superintendent of NC's new Achievement School District

Fifty-three people from across the country have applied to be superintendent of North Carolina's newest school system, known as the Achievement School District, which will serve students in some of the state's lowest-performing schools.